Especially if you shove it wide side first! :D

If some of you would only take the time to read the FIBA and NBA/WNBA rules books, you would see that much of the rules are the same as the NFHS/NCAA rules, especially definitions of traveling and blocking and screeing for FIBA and NFHS/NCAA.

Wait Watson, I fear a red herring. Most devious...most
devious!

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BTW - I liked your Catholic school comment. Worthy of me, and that's high praise indeed. :)

Ah geeze, thanks again! :)

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Also BTW - here's another instance of Euro arrogance. I used to work at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry. At one point, we had an exhibit on "time". In the exhibit, it stated that the units we use to measure time (seconds, minutes, etc.) were metric. The reason? The International Metric Association said so!!!! I used to puke on that exhibit. :P

Seconds are part of the metric (MKS) system and the English
system. You can have it both ways! :)

Fer goshsakes, how many times do I have to state I can't read the FEEBLE rulebook because I don't read metric!!!!! :p

Maybe they should print it in Esperanto. Ya, right.

Besides, even if it was in English, I wouldn't have the time to read it. I'm too busy supporting NATO.

Hey - have you ever noticed that the names of most of the Euro players in the NBA appear daily in the newspaper? No, not in the box scores - in the Jumble.

Well, Mark, good news.

If the league psychiatrists ever say that you can't work basketball any more, you can always get a job as a stand-up comic. :D

You mean - become a coach?

Of course, they're only stand-up comics until I call a T. Then they're sit-down comics.

Very funny Mark - since you're having a friendly (I hope) dig at us metric FEEBLE referees - it's my turn to have a laugh at the expense of Americans:

- George Dubya Bush (do I need to say any more?)
- Heston and the NRA - when you have a high school shooting, don't ban guns, give teachers guns! (Great idea!)
- Calling your NBA, Baseball, Football (etc) competition winners "World Champions" last time I checked world championships were (by definition) open to all countries - not one or two!

And that's just a starting point :)

My mom was a nurse for years and at the hospital where she worked, they really did have metric clocks. 100 seconds in a minute and 100 minutes in an hour. (They thoughtfully left the 24 hour system intact.) So if you left work at 4:45 in the afternoon, your timecard would say "1675". Very strange, but she didn't seem to have any problems with it.

Chuck

Personally, I don't think appreciate your remarks about our country. Poking fun at the Metric System or a basketball association is one thing. You don't read any remarks from us about Australia. Of course, we can start.

1- For your information, it's George W. Bush. You may think it's fun to joke about him but he's held our country together over the past 8 months. Who's the President of Australia right now, hmmmm?
2- There are people with different opinions everywhere. It's a very, very small percentage of Americans who would support teachers having guns. But whether we agree with it or not, they have a right to express that view.
3- World Champions are the best at what they do. Considering that the NBA Champion is the best basketball team in the world, why shouldn't they be considered World Champions? Or haven't you noticed that the players in the world outside of the USA are coming to the NBA to play?

You may not like us, but the world would be a hell of a place without us.

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Wow, Tony. Kind of harsh. Oz has been around for a while, and I think his comments were intended in a Saturday Night Live sort of way. Cut back on the caffiene, maybe?

Chuck

Sorry, but he pissed me off. Nobody's running the Queen, the Aborigines, or Australian rules football into the ground. I've been overseas a few times and have seen this type of attitude about Americans. I don't have a problem with his 3rd comment, but let's discuss and argue basketball and leave nationalities out of it.

I agree. Our young Ozzie friend needed a slap down & I would
have done it if you didn't beat me to it.

Gee,aren't you two really CANTANKEROUS to-day.I think you BOTH need to have a nap!:D
Would it help if MTD Sr. and I sang "Waltzing Matilda" to you?

Nyork!Nyork!Nyork!

No doubt about Woody, I would love a nap! :)

Oz Dude - I wasn't poking fun at any referees. All referees are great in my opinion (except for that one guy I worked with last week, but that's another story). I just like to poke fun at FEEBLE itself. You can't help it if your country still is a Euro colony. ;)

As to your comments, you make some good points, especially number 3. I have always thought we were somewhat pretentious using that title, although until recently, there really wasn't much valid competition for it outside the US. They do use the term "NBA World Champions" now, so I guess they are the champs of the NBA world, whatever that is.

BTW - the vast majority of Americans are not NRA members and think Heston has become a caricature of himself. However, gun control is one hornet's nest I don't want to get into.